ROUSE MS 8. EXEMPLIA COLLECTION ON THE VIRTUES AND VICES, ect., fragment.

Title: ROUSE MS 8. EXEMPLIA COLLECTION ON THE VIRTUES AND VICES, ect., fragment.
Uniform title: Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse Collection of Manuscripts
Date Created: s. XIV 2/2
Date: 1450/1499
Place of Origin: Italy
Language: Latin
Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Summary: Seven folios, from at least 3 different quires, of a collection of exempla on the virtues and vices, and of stories from the life of Jesus. The description below includes in brackets the pencil foliation made when the volume was whole.Parchment (follicles visible), 2 bifolia and 3 single leaves, from a complete manuscript of at least 274 ff. to judge from its older foliation; 135 x 99 (85 x 62) mm. Folios 1and 2 are conjunct; ff. 4 and 6 are conjunct, and folio 5 was an inner leaf in that same quire. Written on 22 long lines (ruling not discernible) by one scribe in a neat late Caroline minuscule, in brown ink. Canceled lower-case Ls as line-fillers.
Description: Written in Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century, to judge from paleographical evidence (trailing terminal “s,” vertical terminal “m,” backwards terminal “c” for “-us,” uncrossed tironian “et,” crossed “q” for “qui,” etc.), codicological features (quality of parchment and follicles, faint ruling), and decoration (harping, beading, and gold bezants on initials, hairlines on letter-forms). The original manuscript may have been cut into separate folios for individual sale in the modern era because of its gold-leaf initials. Bought from Bernard Rosenthal, San Francisco, by Richard and Mary Rouse, 28 February 1986. Given to UCLA in 2005.